Linaro 13.01 Release with Linux Kernel 3.8 and Android 4.2.1

Linaro has just announced release 13.01 which includes Linux Kernel 3.8-rc4 and Android 4.2.1.

A lot of work seems to have gone in Arndale board and OpenEmbedded ARMv8. It’s the first time an Ubuntu image is released for Arndale Cortex A15 development board. One the kernel side some Android upstreaming work has been done, as well as some fixes for eMMC, and code for ST Ericsson Novathor 8500 SoC has been reorganized. Version 14 of the big.LITTLE MP (Multi Processing) has been released. The LEG has done further work on Linaro UEFI and GRUB.

Here are the highlights of this release:

Android

Platform Work

The first step of the android-build front-end update for new build program has been landed.

Origen and Versatile Express manifests have been consolidated into a single manifest.

linaro-android-tools were developed to improve development time for kernel developers. See Kernel Update Tools for details.

The android-build scripts have been cleaned up and should work from Ubuntu 10.04 and work for restricted builds as well.

busybox was upgraded to 1.21

Enablement

Audio Playback for panda is fixed.

External sdcard issue on pandaboard and origen quad was fixed.

LAVA/Testing

Third party benchmark suite is updated to use the uiautomator testing framework.

Filters now support a “compare” feature that allows comparing the results of two different jobs.

Filters results can now be downloaded as JSON data so people can generate their own custom reports.

Galaxy Nexus support added

pre-built CI images converted to use lava-test-shell

LEG

Linaro UEFI 2013.01 released. Highlights include fixes for native building of UEFI on ARM platforms and improvements to flashing images on Arndale boards.

imgburn.sh: add parameters and defaults

panda: Enable native building for Pandaboard

LP #1091447 UEFI: A9 crashes on boot with ATAGS

Linaro GRUB 2013.01 released.

Merge in latest upstream changes, including nested function removal.

Add cache line size probing for clean/invalidate operations

Fix a bug in D-cache clean operation.

Made code, especially Linux loader, more generic.

Visit https://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1301/Release for a list of known issues and further release details about the LEB, Android, Kernel, Graphics, Landing Team, Platform, Power management and Toolchain (GCC / Qemu) components.